Tag: application

  • Radware Extends App Accelerator to XML

    Radware Extends App Accelerator to XML

    Paula Musich

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    Application delivery controller vendor Radware on Oct. 9 will announce that it is teaming up with Forum Systems to integrate XML acceleration and security functions into Radware’s AppXcel appliances. The result of their joint development effort will be an optional software module for the AppXcel appliances that combines Forum Systems’ XML acceleration, policy-based XML message… Read more

  • Salesforce.com to Debut New SAAS Development Platform

    Salesforce.com to Debut New SAAS Development Platform

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    It aint AppExchange 2.0. It’s Apex 1.0. And it very much has the potential to change the way on-demand applications are built and deployed. Salesforce.com will announce Apex, a new Java-based application development language and platform on Oct. 9 at its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. The company has essentially taken its internal development… Read more

  • Juniper Updates WXC Line

    Juniper Updates WXC Line

    Paula Musich

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    Juniper Networks and Silver Peak Systems are looking to grow their offerings in the application acceleration space. Juniper on Oct. 16 will address the need to scale deployments of its WXC line of application acceleration appliances by introducing a new high-end version and an update to the line’s operating system software. The WXC 590 is… Read more

  • Special Delivery: Fast WANs and App Acceleration

    Special Delivery: Fast WANs and App Acceleration

    Paula Musich

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    Technology executives are centralizing data while their employees are dispersing far and wide. They’re all waiting anxiously for the WAN to deliver hot applications—fast—to mobile workers hankering for performance. Technology managers and vendors are racing to oblige. This perfect storm of needs—including more mobile workers, the Webification of software, speedier networks and office consolidation—is driving… Read more

  • EMC Hones Application Dependency Mapping

    EMC Hones Application Dependency Mapping

    Paula Musich

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    EMC’s Smarts unit on Oct. 2 will bring greater insight into the impact of infrastructure problems on applications and services when it introduces the next major release of its EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager software. The new release begins to integrate with its Smarts root-cause analysis software the application dependency discovery and mapping technology EMC… Read more

  • The Long Tail of the Channel

    The Long Tail of the Channel

    Michael Vizard

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    Back in October 2004, Chris Anderson wrote an article in Wired magazine that explained how a concept known as “The Long Tail” in the age of the Internet is fundamentally changing the impact that channels have on product adoption and distribution. At the risk of oversimplifying the concept, Anderson made the observation that centralization of… Read more